Monday, September 29, 2003
I’m in Sydney. It takes 20 hours on planes to get here from Boston, many more if you fold in the waits and to and fro from airports. If that doesn’t make it perfectly clear that this is almost another planet a visit to the botanical garden will. White parrots with yellow horns pick at [...]
Monday, September 29, 2003
Beep – A cure for hickups; well it worked for me.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
“Believing that Lisp circa 1982 plus some mid-1980s ML tricks thrown in is better than all of the new programming tools (C#, Java) that have been built since then is sort of like being a Holocaust denier.”
Thursday, September 25, 2003
This reports that dumb flies out perform smart flies (from New Scientist 24/Sept/03). The quick summary. Breed up a population of smart fruit flies. Insert smart flies into general population. Make food scarce. Smart flies don’t do so well. What’s smart? Smart was defined as 1) the skill to taste a poison, and 2) the [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Two moral frames works. Commercial and Guardian. From Jane Jacob’s book Systems of Survival. Moral Syndrome: Commercial Shun force Come to voluntary agreements Be honest Collaborate easily with strangers and aliens Compete Respect contracts Use initiative and enterprise Be open to inventiveness and novelty Be efficient Promote comfort and convenience Dissent for the sake of [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Assembly – Theory/calculus of how to assemble things. Skype – ? Blurb – How to use your critics to get blurbs for your book, or website. Play Money – Blog on the real money markets for online game commodities; see also Unreal Estate Boom, or, The 79th Richest Nation on Earth Doesn’t Exist. Fox News [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
In the continuing series on discrimitory pricing and it’s desperate simulation of the rug trader in some foriegn bazzar’s attepts to get you to reveal what the product is really worth to you I present: Air, two dollars or free you decide!
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
I’m sitting at home so I can sign for a package containing a new expensive toy for me! I paid extra for shipping so it would get here before I go for a long trip. The package tracking isn’t working. It worked once. Now it says there are duplicate packages with the same tracking number [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
In the best of all possible worlds standards are a win for everybody in the market. A public good. While economists like to get all fixated on the problem that some players freeride on the public good I find the momenteum problem much more interesting. How do you get the emerging standard adopted by enough [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
It was with great nostolgia I read this posting describing the farming in Delaware. As a child many of our neighbors in northeastern Conneticut would grow the occational well concealed vine of mallows. Moving them every year. As a kid it was fun to try and find them out. I do have one minor point [...]
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